Transition Humboldt supports Transition Initiatives in the communities of Humboldt County, located on the northern coast of California. For more information about the Transition Initiative and Transition Humboldt, click here.

Oh! The things we could do.... Transition Humboldt could support many wonderful projects, requiring only the energy and enthusiasm of volunteers. Click here to see some of our Great Ideas waiting for your involvement.

New! Transition Humboldt hosts its first BLOG. This one is for our Salon participants, but anyone can view and comment. To visit, look under the "Resources" tab at the top of the web page.

The Latest:

Community Gathering and PotluckFriday, February 27 at 6 pmClimate Change on the North CoastPresented by the CivicSpark North Coast TeamMarsh Commons, 101 H Street (at G Street), ArcataView the event flyer here.Coming in March: Transition Streets

Transition Streets Volunteers from Transition Humboldt are currently participating in the pilot project for this new program.The program should be ready by this summer.For a preview, visit the Transition US page here.

Transition Humboldt Council The Council meets on the second Sunday of every month. The next meeting is scheduled for February 8 at the home of Richard K and Karen I. For information, call (626) 622-8148Minutes of previous Council meetings are archived here.

Transition Salon This monthly small group conversation is ongoing at private homes in the Humboldt Bay area. We are currently considering This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, by Naomi Klein (Shock Doctrine).For further information, please telephone Rich Lentz at (707) 601-7218. View the salon information page by clicking here.

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Humboldt Permaculture to present their 17th annual Seed and Plant ExchangeMarch 2015 at Arcata Community Center

Should Community Rights be part of the Resilient Communities movement?Read this editorial opinion here.

"The climate system is an angry beast, and we are poking it with sticks," climatologist Wally Broeker famously said in 1991. "We don't know whether it's going to pay attention to the pokes. But if it does, it might rise up and do something we don't like." Dr. Wallace S. Broeker of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, who coined the term "global warming" in 1975, was one of the first to raise the alarm about abrupt climate change. See his 2003 essay: "Fossil Fuel CO2 and The Angry Climate Beast" (a large PDF file).

Angry Climate Beast

Recent updates to this web site:Minutes for the January 11 Council meeting have been added to the archive. Minutes for the January 28 meeting of the Education Working Group have been added to the archive, available here.Zero Waste Lifestyle Working Group has updated its web page. To view, click here .The Community Resilience Toolkit from Bay Localize (first edition, 2009) can be viewed here.